Weekly Tasks

Weekly Tasks

Cloud Painting:

For this task we had to create our own brushes in Photoshop and use them to draw a cloudy sky.

Above are the brushes I created. They have to be black and white since the colour is added once they are being used as a brush. It was important to pay close attention to shadows and highlights in order to create 3D looking clouds. Additionally, the soft effect was achieved by using a chalky brush rather than one of the default round brushes.  

Perspective Lines:

Since perspective is such an important part of drawing environments, it was important to practise identifying the different types of perspective in images. Below is a one-point image and a two-point image with the horizon line drawn on, as well as some of the perspective lines.

Character Paint over:

For this task we were provided with the outline of a concept character, and had to use Photoshop to colour it in. 

Firstly I identified a colour palette to make sure the colours I was using would work together. I then began painting by filling in the block colours to give a base for the drawing.

I then used a soft brush to fill in the shadows where I felt they would be.

Next I did the highlights in the same way I did the shadows. However I also used a small hard brush to put some hard highlights in the fabric, which I felt helped give the fabric a texture.

With the shading done, I added some details such as cracks in the leather and coloured in the facial features.

Finally I added the shadow. I did this by selecting the whole character, duplicating it and colouring it in black, then using the distort tool to place the silhouette it as if it was on the ground and added a blur effect.

Paint Over Task:

For this task we had to take an image, in this case the modern building shown above, and paint over it in Photoshop using brushes or other images to create an entirely new picture.

 

I used the above image in my paint over, since I aimed to create a desert cliff-side like building.

Above is my final paint over, The building shape was taken from the original image and the background cliffs taken from the additional cliff image. I used brushes to create the cliff the building is attached to as well as to make the shadows.